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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
for Wall Street. “It may, in fact, be a very profitable investment,” provided the government ultimately sells the distressed mortgage assets for more than the purchase price, he noted. (On November 12, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson MBA...
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- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable...
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- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
program, first- and second-year students participated in a diverse range of pursuits this summer, many of them focused on racial equity and justice. Among them: Developing a strategic growth plan for Hack.Diversity, which aims to improve...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
Gleason (MBA '97) is finding a way to make both a profit and a difference. Last fall, as a part of HBS associate professor Marco Iansiti's Managing Product Development course, Gleason created a model for a company that would employ...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift
years ago that the approach to inclusion in business was flawed. As a former marketing expert and growth strategist who helped clients find new business opportunities—largely in nonwhite, affluent markets—she was called in to create...
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Maureen Harmon
- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
a horrible constraint for investment,” Cummings says of Detroit’s financial chaos prior to the bankruptcy. “Now the uncertainty has been removed.” This certainly wasn’t the largest or most profitable project Cummings had ever undertaken,...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic, with topics such as the divisive paranoia of coronavirus; the burdens and blessings of quarantine; and a bucket list for lockdown. In June she launched a podcast focused on finding growth in a crisis. The segments feature women...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
and CEO of Best Buy and HBS senior lecturer Hubert Joly shares leadership principles that underpinned the remarkable resurgence of Best Buy, which he believes are at the heart of business: pursue a noble purpose, put people at the center, embrace all stakeholders, and...
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- 08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work
nature of the business, we were still in the world of billable hours; therefore, the conflict of cash flow vs. family time was not resolved. Ultimately, I decided to join a startup operation, and my wife became head of strategic planning...
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